Word: teakwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rising in India's lower house of Parliament, Jawaharlal Nehru, 69, gripped the teakwood Prime Minister's bench and described, in blunt language he had never used before, the "continuing aggression" of Red China's troops against India's northern borders. The frontier incidents were clearly a Chinese testing of India's willingness to defend itself. "We must not become alarmist and panicky and take wrong actions," cautioned the ever-cautious and neutralist Nehru, but then he added ringingly that "there is no alternative to us but to defend our borders and our integrity." M.P.s...
...first magnitude, since it reaches so hard for perfection. Based on sketches by France's owl-wise, owl-grouchy Le Corbusier, the museum was completed by three Japanese architects who had studied with the master in the 1930s. It uses concrete, tile, French glass and Philippine teakwood to create a more finished and refined atmosphere than Le Corbusier himself enjoys. Otherwise, it faithfully represents his solutions to the two great problems of museum architecture: display" and lighting...
...roaring chorus, the 173 Afrikaner Nationalists gathered in the shuttered caucus room broke into the old Dutch hymn, Let God's Blessings on Him Fall. Then the paneled teakwood doors swung open, and out into the early spring sunshine of Cape Town strode the man they had just elected Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa to succeed the late Johannes Strijdom. White-haired, pink-cheeked Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (pronounced Fair Voort) looked more like an off-duty Santa Claus than a hard-fisted authoritarian. Yet in his eight years as Minister of Native Affairs...
...from the Laplanders of the north, Sculptor Hjorth won admiration. As the central teakwood altarpiece for Jukkasjarvi Church, Hjorth carved a looming Christ with heavy Gauguin overtones, surrounded by the Far North's flowers. On the left stands Laestadius preaching hellfire, while one Lapp smashes a keg of aquavit, another returns a stolen reindeer. On the right, Laestadius begs mercy from a Virgin Mary, while a Lapp lay priest, Raatma the Mild, listens. Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's largest daily, called it "a masterpiece . . . everything is dissolved and recreated in the same breath...
Equally unconcerned is Sergeant Croft (Aldo Ray). Tough as teakwood and cruel as a gibbet, he shoots prisoners to loot them of their gold teeth, crushes a broken-winged bird in his bare hand. He too builds power on tiers of terror, cries drunkenly to his platoon: "The generals take orders just like I do. It's just as much my army as it is theirs...